LATE SPORTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1941, Page 6

LATE SPORTING

GRAND NATIONAL MEETING THIRD DAY ABANDONED. TRACK UNSAFE TO RACE ON. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) . CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Heavy rain accompanied by sleet and snow fell during the night and as a result the Canterbury Jockey Club has decided to abandon the third day of the Grand Nation meeting, which was to have been held at Riccarton today. This decision was made at a meeting of the club’s committee this morning and was arrived at for the following reasons: “First, that the track is now unsafe to race on, and would be for some days, and secondly, that although the military authorities, who were to take over the course on Monday, had agreed to meet the club in every way, the committee was reluctant, in the circumstances, to interfere with the arrangements made.” « ' TRAINER DISQUALIFIED DECLARED NEGLIGENT. ECHO OF DOPING INCIDENT. MELBOURNE, August 15. The Victoria Racing Club committee disqualified for two years R. C. Stanton, trainer of Cheery Jack, for neglect to protect that horse, who was doped prior to the Grand National Steeplechase. The committee told Stanton they were convinced that he had failed to care for and protect the horse from being tampered with. Stanton was dumfounded at the decision. He explained that he had never suspected the presence of dopers.